skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I don't think Israel's leader believes in expanding, btw - he only wants one thing, his own political survival. Everything else is secondary.

Netanyahu is a hard case. Here is what Aluf Benn wrote in Haaretz recently:

"Netanyahu wants to be remembered as the one who created Greater Israel, not just as a political schemer accused of corruption who abandoned 100 hostages in Gaza. That's why he'll try to cement Israeli control in northern Gaza. That's why he won't rush to withdraw from the newly occupied territory in the Golan. Under certain circumstances, he might even expand it."

Source: https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/2024-12-11/ty-article/.p...

> First, it does matter what size Israel is. If you are claiming that Israel is expansionist, but it makes up literally a tiny blip on the map, then I think that's pretty relevant.

Israel has robust population growth. This is a long-term project. Similar to the settlements in the West Bank that stated 50 years ago and may finally get most of the West Bank annexed to Israel in the next four year.

> Secondly, I don't think the fact that its population is growing is relevant to this discussion? How does that matter? If you're saying that Israel is more succesfull than most of its neighbors, I agree, but not sure why you think it's relevant, or a mark against Israel?

I think I was judgement free. You are inferring that it is mark against Israel I am talking about geopolitical realities.

If Israel's population is growing while both Syria and Lebanon are stagnant or shrinking and they are also failed/fragile states, it will be easy to expand into them and sustain that expansion.
After 48 Years, It's a Long Goodbye to the Diffie-Hellman Method
Vendor Locking-In should be classified as an anti competitive practice.

The year is 2025 (almost), and we're still suffering with companies closed garden syndrome.
So the thing you alluded to earlier - mossad shoving explosives into just random pagers - was a completely unsubstantiated speculation? About the only collateral damage that I've read about was a child that was sitting on a hamas member's lap when the pager triggered.

It would appear you are one of the "i don't like israel therefore ____" people.
Apple turned on a “feature” without announcing it that would send data about every single on your private photos to their servers recently.

https://bsky.app/profile/matthewdgreen.bsky.social/post/3lef...
In the context of the GP, I think the point still stands though which is roughly: “the lens matters a lot”.

Without knowing more about the optics, it’s hard to know how much of a role the sensor/ISP play in the innovation, but those are well established and widely capable across both photographic and industrial use cases.

Very curious to eventually learn more about this and whether it might eventually find its way into traditional cameras.
Yes but I am not sure you appreciate the point about cause and effect I made
> Why shouldn't I feel the same about Tesla's or any other car?

You aren't? You should.
Getting a model 3 for under $20k is something I may have considered a few years ago when I was in the market. It will be interesting to see how they age. A right to repair would ironically be very good for Tesla long term.
Curious to check it out but a quick question — does it have autocomplete (GitHub copilot-style) in the chat window. IMO one of the biggest missing feature in most chat apps is autocomplete. Typing messages in these chat apps quickly becomes tedious and autocompletions help a lot with this. I’m regularly shocked that it’s almost year 3 of LLMs (depending on how you count) and none of the big vendors have thought of adding this feature.

Another mind-numbingly obvious feature — hitting enter should just create a new-line. And cmd-enter should submit. Or at least have it configurable for this.

(EDITED for clarity)
They’re doing it bc they’re obligated to keep the non profit part alive for PR purposes. They have to put money there so they may as well use it how they want
What are you talking about? Redundancy is how you avoid getting locked out. Each passkey serves as a backup for the other one.

More generally, you should have two keys for any lock, so you can still get in if you lose one of them.
Beyond BLE: Cracking Open the Black-Box of RF Microcontrollers [video]
For a pure Rust answer to “how to make a primarily-safe gc-lang in Rust”, see Piccolo (Lua) with its ‘Stackless VM’:

https://github.com/kyren/piccolo

That’s not to say Piccolo couldn’t theoretically benefit from having its (already isolated) unsafe parts rewritten in Zig, but that’s up to the Zig developer community to chip away at with upstream contributions.
This argument is silly and goes well beyond the spirit of the EU law.

As if Meta has to suddenly show Apple all of its goods now too. Giving Apple access to all Facebook or Instagram data and letting them decide where to draw the line.

Stop letting the distaste for Apple effect reason and sanity.
Joe Voter is not as dumb as you might think... otherwise just in recent history there would be different election results in 2018 and 2020...
It's more nuanced than just that.

Repairs? Rivian on at least their first gen pickups used massive single-body-panels. This shot repair costs to the moon because you had to pay freight to ship massive car-sized body panels and also paint and handle attaching them. Other EVs have done similar bone-headed BUT IT LOOKS COOL bullshit.

The other problem besides body, is there will probably never ever be aftermarket manufacturers for things like batteries, motors, inverters, etc. Because they all require tight integration with the rest of the car's system. And electronics/EVs make it too easy for a manufacturer to custom tailor the electronics per car and per model even on a yearly basis. And the real problem, the design of things like motors on the EV are highly patented and custom. So no different than engines for a ICE. This gives manufacturers the ability to make extreme profit on replacement parts.
They want to share them across devices, sometimes even devices made by different vendors. They want to hand a passkey to a family member or friend. They want to not be concerned they will lose the passkey if the device they are on is lost. They want to understand what the passkey is actually doing for them when they log in, rather than it sometimes being both the username and password, sometimes just replacing the password, and sometimes becoming a sort of weird second factor thing. They want to know how they can change their passkey. The rollout of passkeys leaves a lot to be desired.
Aggregators are references to content. Frontends are copies. You can't sidestep copyright with a "according to Reuters" preamble for the entire article text.
Modern email most definitely does block domains and distrust unfamiliar ones (I extend my personal guarantee that getting around spam filters will be an issue if you host your own email), and there most definitey are such things as domain restricted email servers.

Moreover social media faces distinct issues that require specific tools, causing the email analogy to break down a bit. A lot of organized harassment campaigns leverage network effects of platforms in ways that wouldn't work over email. The per instance federating capability helps to mitigate that, and if mitigating harassment is not something that is a priority there are instances you can join that take the open-to-all approach.
On that note, I recently learned from Simon Willson's blog that if you have uv installed, , you can try OpenWebUI via:

uvx --python 3.11 open-webui serve
On Twitter I get to see interactions between the people that built games I played as a kid, famous actors, Nobel prize winners, heads of state, and authors I had assumed died decades ago. If I write something insightful and relevant enough, I might get a gesture of appreciation from a FAANG research director, a prominent philosopher, or just someone who writes the funniest aphorisms I've ever seen.

It's toxic in some ways; sure--but it's easy to care about.
JPL Horizons on-line solar system data and ephemeris computation service
I meant competitive in terms of the roadmap to AGI, not in the marketplace. Feasible would have been a better word
WhatsApp on Android has the same behaviour. Most of my conversations show as a bare phone number because I decided not to give it all my contacts.

However, WhatsApp groups show a name, so that's a workaround if you are using WhatsApp with someone you know well: Make a group for the two of you.

When a friend went to install WhatsApp for their iPad, they succeeded!

Then they said it wasn't working properly. Unfortunately that's because app store search brought up misleading third-party WhatsApp apps for the iPad. If you weren't paying attention, it was too easy to think you were installing the official app from WhatsApp. I didn't notice the app was third-party at first either, and I was very surprised to find no app at all from WhatsApp itself on closer inspection, amidst a page of search resulrs all claiming to be it.
1Password itself has native passkey support. I don't have experience with it on mobile, but on desktop browsers their extension overrides the build-in passkey support to use/store passkeys from/in 1Password (with a button to fall back to the built-in implementation for its storage, hardware tokens, QR code to use/store a passkey from/on a smartphone, etc).
The author references gaming in his post. If your game is not on social media nobody knows it exists and you have no customers.
You are right about the toxicity and gamers are some of the most toxic. But they live almost entirely online, and you have to reach them where they are.
Honestly bluesky flopped, just like threads and mastodon did.

This is a fact BTW. Activity on bluesky has taken a nosedive.
https://bsky.jazco.dev/stats

What makes Twitter, Twitter didn't move to bluesky.
It's still clearly a niche platform, with only a certain group of people using it.

On Twitter you can follow tech, politics (English and in other languages), sports and more almost in real time, as things are happening.
It's this relevancy and variety that keeps me using Twitter, and bluesky never got this.

It feels like you are within your own bubble, following a few accounts posting bad jokes here and there, and that's it.

It's a shame really, bluesky was the first platform that could actually could replace Twitter, its decentralization is seamless, an important thing for new non-techie users and it didn't just want to become text based Instagram, but people are now very reluctant after two failed attempts, so it just didn't work out.
> Our electric grid falls over at least once a week where we live.

How about this approach? https://solar.lowtechmagazine.com/power/

And frankly, if you're not a business, there's no reason to chase a 100% uptime.
My main concern is security and privacy. App store apps are sandboxed but manually installed apps usually are not.
there is no UB in zig pointers in ReleaseSafe compilation mode.
I've also been on it since it was invite only, and was immediately turned off by how American-political it was. I spent an hour or two trying to curate my feed out of that and into interesting content, and found there wasn't a lot of that.

I got back on it recently to give it another try, and it's somewhat better now - in that the proportion of USpolitics posts is still likely the same, but at least in absolute numbers there's enough non-USpol posts to make a good experience.

> Bluesky seems the least pushy with rage bait content of all the social media’s.

Yesterday, I opened up BlueSky on a non-logged-in computer, and 90% of the default feed was US politics, most of it rageful. I don't know what you qualify as "rage bait", but a majority of BlueSky content is at least angry and caustic.
I found posting on Bluesky to be a similar experience to posting on X premium in terms of engagement. I had premium for the entire lifespan of my X account (I made it to play with Grok) and my followers / following ratio has pretty much been exactly the same.

Have you actually promoted your Bluesky account anywhere or spent time engaging with other people the same way you expect people to engage with you?
This is just the same one vs the many dialectic that always leads to self-refuting positions over time. Orthodoxy is the only faith to resolve this problem.
CuClarabel: GPU Acceleration for a Conic Optimization Solver
Sounds as though you're now not saying that Americans as a group think that. That's good.
> Google could, for example, make a _huge_ splash with the Pixel 10 by presenting this with the option of after-the-fact optical zoom...

Pardon my ignorance, but isn't this just an inferior version of after-the-fact photo capture?

On a serious note, what do you really mean by this? I have trouble imagining how that would work.
What was your favorite city out of all those and what was your least favorite?

Washington DC - by far. I have been everywhere in the US as well except for Alaska, for business and pleasure. Washington DC is the only place that has some form of a soul :)

Are you and your wife from the same country? Did you meet in the US or came here together?

I am from Serbia, my wife is from Croatia. We met in Washington DC. We came under different circumstances, I came to play basketball and my wife came as a refugee.
I agree that the images correspond to the same region in object space. Further assumptions on optical resolution don't work well, as the optical resolution depends on the f-number.
In the tl;dr at the start

>So is Zig a better alternative to writing unsafe Rust?

The title here and what he has in his post are the same, but in the tl;dr along with the slug of the url which is "unsafe-rust-vs-zig".

We need to realize it's a very specific case he's talking about, rather than in general. The pain of titles.
this, especially points 1, 2 and 3, are precisely why the recruitment industry needs to be completely disrupted. most recruiters have absolutely no understanding of how to read developer skills and history, nor how to match them to a company's requirements.

i've worked with many, many recruiters over the years, and only a handful who weren't actively interfering with finding a good dev / company fit.

between that, automated resume filtering and linkedin's requirements to serve linkedin before serving anyone else, we're all living in a situation that would be hilariously ridiculous if it wasn't so sad.
>If Mastodon requires setting up a custom server to replicate that experience, it's not a good replacement for me.

It doesn't. It's the other way around; if you want something niche you'll be likely be searching and custom setup, but otherwise you're getting the default experience with the normal amount of discoverability.
There’s still plenty of conventional oil capacity in West Africa, Iran and Venezuela.

None of those places are producing at anything close to max capacity. Nobody really cares (other than the people who live there) because the world has enough shale.
> And forget about trying to use a passkey to log into PayPal on Firefox. The payment site doesn't support that browser on any OS.

I had no idea! That’s pretty awful.

> Somehow, the mysterious entity responsible for this message (it's Google in this case) has hijacked the process in an attempt to convince me to use its platform.

I do not want Google to be managing my passkeys or passwords. Even if they promise to keep them device-local, I frankly don’t believe them: the temptation to make it easy for users who have lost a device or forgotten a password is too strong, and at some point they will take the plaintext, and then it is game over as far as security is concerned.
Seeing how people drive rentals I wouldn't be surprised if brakes/tires were a big issues, they also seem to be more expensive to repair in general, given that a lot of renters are occasional drivers I assume fender benders are common. I also imagine managing the charge level of so many vehicles can be problematic.

Personally I only rent cars for longer trips, 400+kms, and for these I'd much rather have a gas car

https://www.greencarreports.com/news/1144187_ev-collision-re...
They don't need to be around. It's a completely unlocked phone. Install anything you want on it.
Society is in a continuing state of being "offended" by the words that have become demeaning, and then we switch to new words. This is not a new thing, or anything you'd ever be able to change or stop.
Smoking seems to cause lung cancer in some people but we don't know what would happen to those people if they didn't smoke. It's likely in some people smoking happens with other habits that would cause one issue or another but in other people it's not that. The studies that try to generalize smoking to life expectancy seem questionable.
Chess grandmaster Magnus Carlsen rejoins tournament he quit over wearing jeans
> Let Apple offer users the option

That's easy to say, and much more difficult to implement than it sounds.

Careful: There's a lot of nuance in how these kinds of options are presented to the user. Depending on how they're designed, "the general public" will default to yes or no; or get frustrated / overwhelmed with pedantic permission dialogs.

Thus, part of "Let Apple offer users the option" is a commitment to studying how that option is presented, and the overall implications of such an option.
No, there's parts of Roc that are in Zig[1]. At a glance, it seems like they moved mostly-wholesale over to Zig at one point, then moved back while still keeping some parts.

[1]: https://www.roc-lang.org/faq.html#rust-and-zig
Why? Not philosophically why but genuinely why? The consumer isn't less for their choice, if they saw people suffering damage they found concerning they'd actually be hesitant. And at the same time it's not like equivalent open solutions are going to emerge, we've had decades of cyber-activist products meant to 'empower' users by providing similar functionality to the commercial products of their time and they almost never catch on and if they do they reach a critical mass where they just evolve into data hungry companies themselves. If users would rather pay with data than money maybe the right solution is just to make sure there's simply an opt-in point at all rather than implementing some pointless thicket of UI weeds for them to wade through just to make their device do what they want.
Maybe it’s self-imposed because those mentioned don’t want to be lumped in with these extreme groups? I.e. the shy voter phenomenon.
> I don't know any good solutions to this problem, but that doesn't make the problem go away.

Abandoning the concept of celebreties and instead using social media for social interactions with people who you can "validate" their identity by walking over to them and asking them for their ID.
> Writing a substantial amount of unsafe Rust really sucks the beauty out of the language.

I really disagree with this take, given the examples of unsafe code the article chose to exhibit. Trying to write C in Rust totally goes against the grain of Rust's ergonomics, which are oriented towards discouraging unsafe code patterns. It should be a pain to attempt something dangerous, and it should feel really easy to write safe code, because this setup naturally encourages the vast majority of code to be written safely.
> Most importantly, it was entirely separate to the use of blue ticks to denote verified and authentic accounts

Blue ticks had nothing to do with being "verified" or "authentic." They were handed out randomly to some celebrities. bigcorps, and friends of Twitter employees. As far as I know a bluecheck was never handed out to anyone who wasn't who they said they were (although you could get them under pseudonyms too), but the "wrong" celebrities or normal people could not get them. It was a mark of social cachet, not authenticity.
Looks like on iOS it integrates with the native passkey support (so is usable anywhere native passkeys are supported). 1Password on Android looks to have similar integration, but only for apps at this stage (not websites, due to an Android limitation). So still a little while to go yet for "it just works" across all platforms.
So it's either because you, too, have never heard of them, or because you're obliged not to. Which one is it? Are you making an educated guess about their presence?
Pilet Open Source Portable Computer
This Pilet looks interesting. Still early days though.

Probably quite useful for makers, developers, and tech enthusiasts. It has a Raspberry Pi5 or CM5 in it. Fully open source, the Pilet seems to be customizable and to be available in multiple form factors. I personally like the tablet form with the attaches keyboard beneath it (though I hope that it is nicer to type on than it looks in the pictures.

They are launching a Kickstarter soon. I'm apprehensively excited.
> I'm surprised that you say an imperative language would give you an _easier_ embedding than using Haskell.

I don't think your parent says this. The three comparisons I found were:

> The fun thing is that this sounds like "just" a more type-safe version of the way DSLs are usually implemented in imperative languages, particularly scripting languages.

This sounds like saying that this trick is already common in imperative languages, not necessarily easier.

> The DSL in question tries to block that by preventing AST nodes from being converted to boolean, but it's not perfect. Haskell has an advantage there.

This explicitly gives the win to Haskell.

> So there's no trouble distinguishing between, e.g., calling some function bar() and then using the return value twice, versus calling bar() twice. No need to use a separate <- operator for assignments.

This one seems to give the win to imperative languages, but, as far as I can tell, just on the basis of syntax.
What are some example sites where this is both necessary and sufficient? In my experience sites with serious anti-bot protection basically always have JavaScript-based browser detection, and some are capable of defeating puppeteer-extra-plugin-stealth even in headful mode. I doubt sites without serious anti-bot detection will do TLS fingerprinting. I guess it is useful for the narrower use case of getting a short-lived token/cookie with a headless browser on a heavily defended site, then performing requests using said tokens with this lightweight client for a while?
Resources are infinite (Julian Simon).

And exponential doesnt mean the peak will be in 20 years. It could be 500 years.
Someone who works at LinkedIn told me that Linkedin measures success by how many times a user opens the app. It would not surprise me if the numbers are exaggerated to make someone look good for a promotion. My take is that it must drive engagement somehow.

In a similar way, recruiters post ghost jobs to gather data and make companies look like they are growing.
> Passwords are phishable.

Passwords auto-filled by a browser extension are not phishable.
Anglophones are often confused by the concept of tone being used to differentiate words in many non-European languages.

But it's not a hard concept, it's just unfamiliar to them.

People being confused by a concept after it has been taught to them suggests that either the concept is hard or the educational process inadequate. Confusion on initial introduction has nothing to do with difficulty.
> I can't help but feel like these are the dying breaths of the open Internet though

I agree with the over zealous tracking by the megacorps but this is also due to bad actors, I work for a financial company and the amount of API abuse, ATO, DDoS, nefarious bot traffic, etc. we see on a daily basis is absolutely insane
A YubiKey is not an HSM
'The Imp of the Perverse' — Edgar Allan Poe, 1850

https://poestories.com/read/imp
Don't most sites let you create multiple passkeys which would avoid lockin?
> I already have a universal solution for credentials: 1password, which is cross-platform.

You can store passkeys in 1password so they work everywhere.